Alan Cumming felt "suicidal" moments before GoldenEye audition
GoldenEye's Boris Grishenko may be one of the most memorable characters in James Bond history, but Alan Cumming has admitted that depression had him by the short and curlies on the day he auditioned for the character.
"It was one of the worst days of my life actually", he said.
"I felt really, really, really low. I just now think, 'Oh you poor little thing, you could've said I am feeling suicidal today'. That's something I realised when I was writing, like, 'Oh my God, Hollywood saved me'. When something bad happens, I think, 'OK, that happened, we can't change that, let's move on', he added.
The Scot has previously detailed his childhood growing up on the northeast coast of Scotland and his relationship with his abusive father, who later disowned him:
"When I was 28, I suddenly remembered all this stuff from my childhood. It's still with me; I still get triggered by things. And we all have baggage; we all have trauma".
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